Originally Posted by
Uplinker
The UK CAA CAP 413 publication is a very good guide to spoken radio communications. Might seem a little anal but it is clear and it works.
yes but we aren’t dealing with English English spoken at normal rates.
Many moons ago I did a semi wet lease on the MD80 with a Swiss German skipper (limited english ability) for Air Afrique into Conakry where the recent occupants of the palace had been left hanging from a bridge. The runway was notamed as reduced length by 1/3rd due to a trench across it. ATC had been replaced by Chinese whose french and english was look it up in a phrase book without phonetic pronunciation.
So it was a 1’000ft pass which only revealed the orange strip (soil colour), elect to land from opposite direction avoiding restricted airspace around presidential palace (plate stated we would be shot down) and a short landing..fortunately the trench had been back filled.
WRT to the incident..the controller did an excellent job..sh@t happens.
to put it in perspectives one year recently there were three near accidents in ireland all down to ATC ..one aircraft landed over a gang mower on the active runway, à dubious cleared to cross after the rolling aircraft which saw an executive jet fly under a chopper just after rotation and a near CFIT iirc..and they don’t speak like New Yorkers.
I can also recall a mate in a 747 missing an aircraft by less than 10ft in Melbourne when another aircraft was towed across the runway in use.